I think Catcher in the Rye can work no matter what age you are when read it. I didn't read it till I was almost 30, and I found it moving but in a detached way. I was observing somebody who was where I'd once been, and it brought back feelings I'd not felt for a long time ago.

Which Zhang Yimou?
The one who produces gorgeous, affecting and subversive movies like To Live and Raise the Red Lantern, or the sycophant who ingratiates himself to Beijing with gorgeous but utterly vapid fare like Hero and the Olympics opening ceremony?

Oasis = Bon Jovi
Going into a bar filled with Brits when an Oasis song comes on is like going into a bar in Jersey when Bon Jovi starts playing. Immediately all the twenty and thirty-something bankers and lawyers start singing along and pumping their fists. Damn I hate those guys (that is, Bon Jovi, Oasis, and…

Johnny Cash is to country music much what Bob Marley is to reggae. Somehow people profess to like one while despising (in the case of country) or just being totally indifferent to (in the case of reggae) the genre.